Blog // Connect Ohio

07/31/12

Video by Amanda Murphy
Marathon Special Products, located in Bowling Green, Ohio has been in business for nearly 50 years and has advanced with changes in technology over that time. Many job descriptions within the company are changing and computers are becoming vital to daily operations. The company began looking for an opportunity to help employees keep up with technology and recently partnered with Connect Ohio to offer Every Citizen Online (ECO) basic computer training.
“At some point, we think that all of our employees will need to understand basic computer skills in order to operate the equipment that we have,” said Bret...

07/26/12

Updated: Telcos Make Broadband Deployment Commitments to FCC

By Tom Koutsky

Updated: Read the CN Policy Brief on the Connect America Fund Phase I filings
Continue reading CAF Phase I filing story, original posted July 24, 2012:
Today, several of the larger telephone companies made multi-million dollar commitments to the FCC to deploy broadband in currently unserved areas of the country. These providers will build out broadband to these areas over the next three years, in exchange for a one-time payment of $775 per location from the FCC’s new Connect America Fund.
Frontier, CenturyLink, Windstream, FairPoint, Consolidated, ACS, and other providers made detailed filings before the FCC today. ...

07/23/12

Every Citizen Online All-Star Facility Award Presented to Rhodes State College

By Lyndsey Kleven

Connect Ohio has named Rhodes State College an Every Citizen Online (ECO) All-Star Facility. The ECO All-Star Facility award was presented to April Sybert, Rhodes State College ECO coordinator, by executive director Stu Johnson during Connect Ohio’s quarterly Technology Association Meeting session held in Columbus July 20, 2012.
Connect Ohio ECO staff, including state operations managers and executive director, choose the ECO All-Star Facility awardee based on meeting various program “hallmarks of excellence.” These include, but are not limited to, the number of adults taking ECO training at the facility’s locations, ECO program survey rate...

07/17/12

A new Pew Internet study found that 53% of American adults 65 or older are now using the Internet or e-mail, making senior citizens the fastest growing group of Internet users. Although broadband usage for seniors is on the rise, not surprisingly, those over 75 are less likely to use the Internet, with usage dropping to 34%.
The study also found that the majority of seniors who are online (86%) are using the Internet to send e-mails with almost half (48%) doing so daily. E-mail remains the primary use of communication for online seniors, but many are using the Internet for social media (33%).
For seniors who are considered to be “tech savvy...